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Topic: Avast 8 Update causes BSOD in WinXP (Read 8438 times)

Hi, I updated to Avast 8 and it's now causing a BSOD on start-up. The error says it's a "Page fault in non paged area" which I've never seen before. It's definitely Avast, as I can work in Safe Mode and after uninstalling and using aswclear.exe my system was fine, but reinstalling Avast 8.0.1482 clean has caused the same error. It didn't prompt for a restart on the clean install, but the moment I attempted to open something the BSOD occurred and then again on restart.

I'm running Win XP Pro SP3 and had no problems with Avast 7. Any ideas?

I too got the BSOD that showed Page_Fault_In_Nonpaged_Area after updating to version 8. I uninstalled Avast completely and did a fresh install but still got the same BSOD. I finally gave up and just installed AVG instead. I hope they get this issue fixed as I really like Avast and have been using for several years. I'm running Win XP Pro SP3 and have no problems up until this point.

I too got the BSOD that showed Page_Fault_In_Nonpaged_Area after updating to version 8. I uninstalled Avast completely and did a fresh install but still got the same BSOD. I finally gave up and just installed AVG instead. I hope they get this issue fixed as I really like Avast and have been using for several years. I'm running Win XP Pro SP3 and have no problems up until this point.

I have the same problem and had Zone Alarm as my Firewall, I managed to uninstall Zone Alarm after several attempts and numerous BSOD. This seems to have solved the problem for now and I am using XP Firewall for now. Wont use Avast Firewall until stability is constant over a week.Good luck and keep posting.

I have the same problem and had Zone Alarm as my Firewall, I managed to uninstall Zone Alarm after several attempts and numerous BSOD. This seems to have solved the problem for now and I am using XP Firewall for now. Wont use Avast Firewall until stability is constant over a week.Good luck and keep posting.

I also run ZoneAlarm Pro version: 11.0.000.057

I do not want to uninstall this as I have been using ZoneAlarm for years and I am VERY happy with it. In fact I just renewed this subscription and I certainly don't want to waste the money on this purchase also.